8.09.2007 7588.jpg Originally uploaded by trenthead This hot up in Washington re the Crandall Canyon Mine. Here is the link to the just-issued report from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General–Office of Audit. The report is called “MSHA could not show it made the right decision in approving the roof control plan [...]
Archive for March, 2008
MSAH and Crandall Canyon: vote them out and put them in court
Posted in About the news, Coal, tagged Coal, Crandall Canyon, MSHA, report mining, Salt Lake Tribune, U.S. Department of Labor on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cuba, Castro, and Canadian moral compass misalignment
Posted in People, tagged Canadian Mining Journal, Castro, Cuba, disgrace, Jane Werniuk, mining, nickel, Sherritt on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I was obliged to go to Cuba in early February to prepare an article about Sherritt International.” Thus begins the editorial in the February 2008 issue of the Canadian Mining Journal. Clearly Jane Werniuk had some misgivings. She writes further: There were a few surprises. A lack of advertising for anything at all except the [...]
Patience as we travel by luxury train to mine Tibet
Posted in Church, opera, tagged Bolivia, Canadian, devil, Gilbert, mining, opera, Patience, Sullivan, Tibet, train on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend I went to a local production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience. That has nothing to do with mining you may say; but I reply that it was one of the first and most popular productions at the new Leadville opera house in the 1800s–the miners apparently flocked to see this strange picture of [...]
A true story of salt removal from mine ponds?
Posted in About the news, tagged Extraction, mining, ponds, SAL-PROC, salt on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In addition to this blog, I write serious engineering stuff for TechnoMine. Every-so-often there comes across my desk a technology or engineering application that makes it into the serious stuff…and very infrequently I post here something about a technology or product. The basis of such is decision is just that that is what I feel [...]
More Fort McMurray oil-sands people
Posted in Oil sands, tagged casino, Fort McMurray, French, Las Vegas, mining, Oil sands, Vancouver on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Casinos are fascinating places. In Las Vegas, the Strip and the old downtown are a visual delight of glitz & glamor. Every fountain, every tower, every plaza (indoors and out) is a place to stare and dream. But that amazement is not at the casino next to the shopping mall in downtown Fort McMurray. I am [...]
Fort McMurray, Alberta: Oil Sands and its people lauded
Posted in About the news, Oil sands, tagged Fort McMurray, jobs, Oil sands, People, success, truck driver, Vancouver, waitress on March 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
He was short and old and very nervous. As we landed in the snow onto a white runway, he looked out and said: “This is my first time here and I don’t know what will happen.” I felt for him, for so many time I have gone somewhere new, alone, and afraid. He told me [...]
The next mining bubble?
Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged financial bubble, Harpers, investing, mining on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article from a liberal magazine to make the heart of a true conservative mining man happy? There is one I read today. Here is the link to the HARPER’S MAGAZINE article The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash. From flickr at this link. The article is long and the part that makes the [...]
Talking nice with the Taliban to mine in Afghanistan
Posted in Church, tagged Afghanistan, Canada, Cuba, First Nations, Geology, Globe and Mail, mining, Taliban on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mining is the answer to Afghanistan’s political problems. If you believe that, I also have a nice bridge for sale that will speed your morning commute. I did not make up the idea that mining could save Afghanistan from itself and, more significantly, the Taliban and poppy growers. In the first part of a restricted article at [...]
Opera, dictators, and Wismut uranium tailings cleanup: untold stories for the ages
Posted in Europe, Mining history, opera, Uranium, tagged Fidelio, Il Corsaro, opera, remediation, Tailings, Tristan and Isolda, Uranium, Vancouver opera, Wismut on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A weekend of opera. Saturday morning’s five-hour-long Tristan and Isolde live from the Met by high definition satellite to the local cinema. A feast of splendor about love induced by lust and potion–with all the emotions that betrayal and adultery attend. Dreseden Opera House – Photo by By Uncle Budda — see flickr.
China – Tibet; Platinex – KI. Issues to be solved by law, power, or politics?
Posted in About the news, Church, First Nations, tagged Chinese, Dalai Lama, First Nations, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, mining, Tibet, United Nations on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From flickr this photo entitled: John Cutfeet, spokesperson and councilor from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation speaks at Queen’s Park in front of the Ontario Provincial legislative building in Toronto. I am not sure if he is one of the six incarcerated today on contempt of court charges in connection with protests about Platinex drilling for uranium [...]
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